We kept hearing it over and over again, but somehow, it didn't sink in right away.
The American Hockey League is a developmental league for the National Hockey League, and the minor league affiliates' main job is to develop players for the parent club...

It's safe to say that the team the Lehigh Valley Phantoms is putting on the ice for this next four-game homestand bears little resemblance to the team that has lost four straight games at home.
Add center Scott Laughton back from the parent-club...

Taylor Leier wasn't smiling.
Two nights before his 21st birthday, he got into his first AHL fight, only to have it called roughing instead of fighting.
But that's not why he wasn't smiling. Or happy.
The Binghamton Senators, in last place in the East...

After the Lehigh Valley Phantoms' dreadful 6-1 loss to Hershey at the PPL Center on Friday night, Phantoms alternate captain Andrew Gordon sounded hauntingly like Yoda in "The Empire Strikes Back."
"We have to realize that just wanting to win and...

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One team looked like it never stopped practicing during the AHL All-Star Classic break; the other looked like it was still on break for the first 30 minutes.
The Albany Devils jumped out to a three-goal lead and got an empty-net goal in the closing two minutes to record a 4-1 win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center on Thursday night.
The Phantoms have lost four of their last five games and five of their last seven. They need to regroup in a hurry to stay within striking distance of...

Kevin Goumos, Petr Straka and Brandon Alderson have been a productive line the last two games for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
They have gone from stand-still opportunists to those moving with the puck and creating many scoring opportunities.
In Saturday night's game against St. John's, the Lehigh Valley trio accounted for five points in a 4-3 victory in front of a PPL Center-record crowd of 8,983.
"They are making things happen in the offensive zone," Phantoms coach Terry Murray said. "In the past,...

Fans who won bids during an auction after Saturday night's game between the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and the St. John's IceCaps received the Phantoms' Inaugural Season specialty jerseys.
Those fans got the jerseys autographed if they wanted; ditto for a posed picture with the player.
It was a nice way to end the midway point of the Phantoms' first season at the PPL Center, which has been a cozy home for Lehigh Valley hockey.
Coach Terry Murray's club took an 11-4-2-1 home record into Saturday's game,...

Martin Ouellette said he didn't change anything he's done since coming to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. His second start Saturday night against Binghamton looked much like his first one.
The changes were made by the rookie's teammates.
They played with better discipline, stayed away from the ill-timed penalties and didn't get cute with the puck.
The result was a convincing 5-1 win in front of 8,907 fans at the PPL Center.
Nick Cousins set a Lehigh Valley record with a goal 14 seconds into the game,...

Nick Cousins noticed the gentleman with gray hair and glasses decked out in a black Philadelphia Flyers coaching jacket and a Lehigh Valley Phantoms cap at the start of practice in the PPL Center Thursday morning.
"Who's that?" he asked nonchalantly to a group of players. One of them shot back, "Bobby Clarke."
Atten-shun!
Clarke, who led the Flyers to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 1973-74 and 1975-76, whose famous two-hand slash broke the ankle of the Soviet Union's Valeri Kharmolov that...

Before leaving the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to compete at the World Junior Championships in Canada, defenseman Robert Hagg joked he would quit hockey if Team Sweden won another silver medal.
Hagg had won two silver medals with Team Sweden the previous two years, and this was his last go for the gold.
Sweden didn't win a silver, and unfortunately finished fourth, but Hagg didn't have to be taken at his word about going into an early retirement. He rejoined the Phantoms last week.
In his first game...